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The construction, to be finished in 2014, reduced capacity for the Test from about 38,500 to about 20,000.

And the building work has shaved six metres of playing field from the already short square boundaries.

As a result, the three eastern-most pitches can't be used because the boundary would be too small - a problem for curator Damian Hough.

''There have been a few challenges with that from the lack of pitch rotations,'' Hough said on Wednesday. ''To compensate that, we have deliberately left a little bit more grass on there to try and help with recovery.''

But Hough said construction had not altered what would be a ''traditional Adelaide Oval pitch'' for the Test match.

''It has got a little bit more grass on it than last year but it's hard and it's dry,'' he said. ''There might be slightly a bit more bounce and I suppose that is what we are trying to get - as much bounce in the Adelaide pitch as we can.

''Obviously, it's not the same as Brisbane or Perth but, hopefully, it's just a typical Adelaide Oval pitch.''